Dynamic Process Methodology in the Social and Developmental Sciences

by Valsiner, Jaan; Molenaar, Peter C. M.; Lyra, Maria C. D. P.; Chaudhary, Nandita

• ISBN13: 9780387959214
• ISBN10: 0387959211
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-06-23
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

Reality is dynamic: filed with variables and constantly in flux. So are the physical, psychological, and social processes that make up our lives-so much so, assert the contributors to Dynamic Process Methodology in the Social and Developmental Sciences, that phenomena science often dismisses as "anecdotal" evidence are in fact the valuable record of highly individual dynamic systems.

Author Biography

Jaan Valsiner, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at Clark University, where he has taught since 1997. He was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize in Germany in 1995 and is actively involved in FQS: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung. His general interests are in the cultural organization of mental and affective processes in human development across the life span. He is also interested in psychology's history as a resource of ideas for contemporary advancement of the discipline, and in theoretical models of human development. Currently his specific research directions include the study of young adults' self as an autodialogic process. He is the editor of Culture and Psychology, Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, and From Past to Future. He is also the founding editor of International Journal of Idiographic Science.Peter Molenaar, Ph.D., is Professor of Human Development at the Pennsylvania State University, where he has taught since 2005. Prior to that, he was Professor of Psychological Methodology, Mathematical Psychology and Psychometrics at the University of Amsterdam. His main interest is in the application of mathematical theories to solve substantive psychological issues.Maria C.D.P. Lyra, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Psychology at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil. She received her doctoral degree in developmental psychology from the University of Sao Paulo in 1988. Her areas of research include developmental models of mother-infant communication, emergence of self in infancy, variability in mother-infant communication, and methodological issues in the study of human development.Nandita Chaudhary, Ph.D. is a Reader in the Department of Child Development, Lady Irwin College, at the University of Delhi. Over the past 20 years, she has been involved with research, teaching, and administration in the area of child and family studies in India. In 1993, she was placed as a Fulbright Scholar in the Department of Psychology at Clark University. She is an active member of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development, the All-India Women's Educational Fund Association, and the Indian Association for Preschool Education.

Table of Contents

The Unbearable Dynamicity of Psychological Processes: Highlights of the Psychodynamic Theories	p. 1
Reviving Person-Centered Inquiry in Psychology: Why it's Erstwhile Dormancy?	p. 31
How Methodology Became a Toolbox-And How it Escapes from that Box	p. 45
The Two Disciplines of Scientific Psychology, or: The Disunity of Psychology as a Working Hypothesis	p. 67
The Experimental Methodology of Constructive Microgenesis	p. 99
The Schema Approach: A Dynamic View on Remembering	p. 123
Against Reification! Praxeological Methodology and its Benefits	p. 141
Grasping the Dynamic Nature of Intersubjectivity	p. 171
Idiographic Data Analysis: Quantitative Methods-From Simple to Advanced	p. 191
Depicting the Dynamics of Living the Life: The Trajectory Equifinality Model	p. 217
Analysis of Intensive Categorical Longitudianal Data	p. 241
Advances in Dynamic Factor Analysis of Psychological Processes	p. 255
Hidden Markov Models for Individual Time Series	p. 269
Multilevel Simultaneous Component Analysis for Studying Intra-Individual Variability and Inter-Individual Differences	p. 291
Idiographic Microgenesis: Re-visiting the Experimental Tradition of Aktualgenese	p. 319
Dynamic Methods for Research in Education	p. 353
Social Dynamics in Complex Family Contexts and its Study	p. 383
Dynamics of Life-Course Transitions: A Methodological Reflection	p. 405
Dynamic Methodology in Infancy Research	p. 431
Dynamics of Psychotheraphy Processes	p. 455
Dramatic Life Courses: Migrants in the Making	p. 477
Innovative Moments and Change Processes in Psychotherapy: An Exercise in New Methodology	p. 493
Techno Parties, Soccer Riots, and Breakdance: Actionistic Orientations as a Principle of Adolescence	p. 527
Dynamic Processes and the Anthropology of Emotions in the Life Course and Aging: Late-Life Love Sentiments and Household Dynamics in Tuareg Psycho-Biographies	p. 541
Synthetic Phenomena and Dynamic Methodologies	p. 567
Developmental Science: Integrating Knowledge About Dynamic Processes in Human Development	p. 595
Cognitive and Interactive Patterning: Processes of Creating Meaning	p. 619
Index	p. 651
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